Ion Cutelaba was removed from UFC 217 due to a potential anti-doping policy violation just one day before he was scheduled to fight Michal Oleksiejczuk in the New York event. The fighter would go on to release a statement to MMAUNO, claiming that the potential violation was simply a failure to provide documentation that would exhonerate him in time for his bout. The Moldovan fighter said of the USADA violation:
“I’ve done a legal medical procedure to reduce an inflammation and that procedure is called ozone therapy.
This procedure I don’t think is very well known by USADA, so USADA just wanted information about this procedure from the…
UFC fighter under USADA investigation for potential blood doping